Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c5.s2.3
Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c5.s2.3
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c5.s2.3
When Hellenic thought turns towards world and life negation, it is because in the end it begins to have misgivings about the world and life affirmation which for centuries had seemed a matter of course. . . . In the thought of India, on the other hand, world and life negation does not originate in a similar experience. It is there from the very beginning, self-originated, born as it were in a cloudless sky. And it is there in a very curious guise. Unlike Hellenic world and life negation, it does not claim